Well, this was one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen, and no mistake. Mind you, I had absolutely no idea about what I was about to watch, so it all came as a surprise, factor that probably brought the crazyness to the n-level.
It starts with Gary King (Simon Pegg) telling a story at a therapy session, AA probably. He tells them of when he was a kid, and with four friends he went on a pub crawl one night, intending to hit twelve pubs, but they didn’t make it. He says that life never again felt so good… which gives the idea of what it must be his life now :-/
Thinking about it, he wants to have that time back and convinces his old friends to do it again.
Andy (Nick Frost), Oliver (Martin Freeman), Steven (Paddy Considine), Peter (Eddie Marsan), reluctantly agree, although they didn’t look so sure of what they are doing. Gary still has his old car, and they drive back to their old town. The first pub is “the First Post”, where four of them have their first pint of beer while Andy drinks water because he says he doesn’t drink anymore. The second put is “the Old Familiar”, where they meet Sam (Rosamunde Pike), Oliver’s sister, and when she goes to the toilet Gary follows her thinking she wants to have sex with him in there, but she doesn’t, instead she smacks his face. The third pub is “the Famous Cock) where they see that after twenty years Gary is still banned, so they have their beers on a table outside. The fourth pub is “the Cross Hands”, where they start fighting, saying they grew up and changed. Not all of them, Gary almost hits the wall in the exact spot where he hit it in 1990, then he picks a fight with a kid in the bathroom, and the kid acts like a robot. They fight and the kid loses his head, literally I mean, but still moves while blue ink comes out of his neck! His friends come in and the kid is also joined by four kids just like him. They have a big fight and all the five kids are like robots, with blue ink. Gary says that the town has changed, that everyone was replaced and that’s why nobody recognized them. Andy starts drinking again. The fifth is “The Good Companion”, where Gary is the only one still excited and willing to keep going, while the other have had enough but follow him anyway. 6-“the Trusty Servant” they meet an old man who used to sell them drugs, and 7-“the Two headed Dog”, where they fight with Sam’s twin-friends, who are ‘robots’ as well; Steven finally confesses his love to Sam. 8-“the Mermaid” has become a discotheque, where Steven meets Basil (David Bradley), believed to be the town’s fool but he knows what is going on, and tells him everything. They are not robots because they’re no slaves; they only need your dna to replace you if you oppose them. Pretty young girls tempt them :-/ 9-“the Beehive”, Guy Shepherd (Pierce Brosnan) tells him that ‘they’ are here to help, like teachers, and Oliver agrees! They’re both ‘robots’, and Andy goes crazy and starts a big bar fight with lots of ‘them’, but the problem is that ‘they’ keep coming back up. Gary sends Sam away and ‘they’ get Peter.
10-“the King’s Head”: Andy knocks Gary out, Steven and Andy want to go away, but Gary won’t give up, he’ll go on alone if he has to, he drinks his tenth pint and then runs to the next pub, while the whole city plus Andy are running after him. 11-“the Hole in the Wall”, where Gary pulls himself his beer while Andy fights. Steve comes with the car but is taken. Gary runs to the last pub and Andy runs after him. Right there they fight over the last drink and Gary shouts that he has to do it because “it’s all I’ve got” and he tells him of how it was all a lie, when they were young and he felt like he could take over the universe. There, at the World’s End, they finally talk with the Network, who tells them that they need help because they’re screw ups, and are offered the ‘chance’ to be young again as replacements, but Gary refuses, yelling that humans have a right to be fuck-ups. During the argument, they are joined by Steven who got away from ‘them’. The Network finds it “pointless arguing with you” and when it switches off the ‘robots’ they explode, causing a big big explosion that destroys the whole town. At the World’s End the world ends. Next, we see that the world is without electricity, therefore without technology; there were many casualties; Andy made up with his wife and they are working as farmers now. The replacements of Oliver and Peter reactivated and went back to their old life as if they were real. Steven is with Sam now, and Gary… well, Gary went back to what is left of his old town and is the leader of a group of four ‘robo-kids’, and goes from pub to pub drinking water and picking up fights…
ITA la fine del mondo
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